“Our goal was to showcase the breadth and depth of citizen opposition to gas storage. Accordingly, we sought to make civil disobedience as inclusive as possible for as many people as possible, and, for those whose conscience so led them, as safe as possible.” Steingraber’s EcoWatch column on the news that the methane storage project plan for Seneca Lake had been halted, and the role of the civil disobedience movement in which she took part. Read the article

“As a biologist, I am looking for a presidential candidate who can be realistic about this science, which says that we cannot frack our way to climate stability.” Steingraber writes about a Hudson Valley, New York event supporting the Bernie Sanders campaign from an environmental perspective. Includes full text of her own remarks. Read the article

“In a public statement to fellow blockaders, McKibben thanked We Are Seneca Lake for serving as a ‘curtain raiser’ for the larger global movement to break free from fossil fuels that is now unfolding in frontline communities all over the planet.” Steingraber covers the large, peaceful civil disobedience blockade against gas storage on Seneca Lake, that included acclaimed author and founder of 350.org Bill McKibben, on Ecowatch. Read the column

“Ratcheting up the Clean Power Plan as the years go by would only take us sideways — or even backwards — in our quest to stabilize the climate system.” Steingraber discusses the shortfalls of President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, and the alternate direction needed, in The Ithacan. Read the article

“As the federal judge in a federal courthouse made clear yesterday, with me and an ill-treated videographer bearing witness, the rule of law dictates that the trees must fall.” Steingraber reports on court proceedings in Scranton, PA, on the eminent domain case of a family maple syrup business in the pathway of the planned Constitution Pipeline. Read the article

“Governor Cuomo, we want you to tell the world that New York is so done with keeping the lights on by building more crematoria for the burning of more prehistoric plants and animals, whose extraction from the ground and transportation to the flame destroys our climate, our water and our health.” Steingraber’s “State of the Climate” rally speech in Albany on January 13, 2016 is published on Ecowatch. Read the text

“[B]y rejecting the notion that drinking water can be labeled it as ‘surplus property’ and sold off for export, like so many extra snowplows—sans environmental review—the court shines a bright light on the whole issue of water rights.” Steingraber explains the recent victory over a Shell Oil subsidiary and the Painted Post, New York water withdrawal project, on EcoWatch. Read the article

“Let’s call it the Climate Pretender Award, given to those who—for the purposes of attaining admiration, influence, grant money or a political legacy—best mimics the speech of a world climate leader while making precious little effort to keep fossil fuels in the ground, uncombusted.” Steingraber reports from the Paris Climate talks on the difference between words and actions from California’s governor. Read the article